[SPUGGIE J]

When the govenment in 74 scrapped the shire councils in scotland and made them regional one it wasent to bad as I came under Central which was the whole of Stirlingshire. Then in there wisdom several years back the scrapped them along with district councils and split Central into 3 councils with the powers of the regional and districts combined.

Now its Falkirk Stirling and Clackmanen. the county of Stirlingshire does not really exist any more and is made up of Stirling and Falkirk and classed as Forth valley. Yet the irony is that Clackman was a county until it became part of Central but is now the same as Falkirk and Stirling but covers the whole of the old county of Clackmananshire. Bit of an irony but shows regional assemblies did not work yet its still in the wings down there.

Will govenment ever learn from past mistakes? Devolving power to regional assemblies failed her in Scotland but they want to try again it wont work.
It will be too big too beaurocratic and slower than a constipated rocking horse. The quicker this idea is scrapped the better because if it isnt brocken why try and fix it? To President Bair and his cronies "hands of Lancashire and leave us alone go and muck up something else or do something worthwhile"